Religion: The Spirit in Asia

Seventeen years ago, as he tells it, a young Korean named Yonggi Cho
was waiting to die of tuberculosis when a girl gave him a Bible. He
converted to Christianity and his tuberculosis was promptly checked,
though not cured. Ordered out of his Buddhist parents' home for
renouncing their faith, Cho huddled in his shabby lodgings one night,
praying for a full recovery. "Suddenly the room was filled with light,"
he recalls. "I looked about me and saw two feet. I did not know who he
was until I saw the crown of thorns piercing his temple, the blood
streaming...